DL360 Gen9 iLO4 virtual CDROM iso boot not working

[simoncorner]

I have a number of DL360 Gen9 and they will not boot from an iso attached to virtual CD-ROM

I have tried

UEFI/legacy boot - secure boot is disabled on UEFI

IE/Firefox/Chrome

iLO4 v2.79/v2.77/v2.61

Server 2016 iso/server 2019 iso/Intelligent Provisioning 2.86 iso/systemrescue iso

They are currently on BIOS 2.90

The aim of the exercise is to install Server 2019 on the servers. Since the server won't boot from the Server 2019 iso I thought I would try using Intelligent Provisioning (IP). The IP is quite old on the servers, 2.40.79 and only shows Server 2016 so I thought I would update the IP version.

All isos boot fine on a Gen8 server that is installed on the same network and on Virtualbox on my laptop. I do not have physical access to write the isos to a USB to insert them in the server and there are 7 servers to update which are spread out across a large geographical area.

The isos are readable as I have booted into IP on one of them, mounted the Server 2016 iso through virtual cdrom and am in the process of installing Server 2016 on it. This is proceeding, incredibly slowly.

Any thoughts?

[Cali]

Hi,

did you try to use the Active_X Applet?
It is a different (Old) Way to Mount the ISO with iLO and also faster than HTML.
iexplore.exe > iLO GUI > .NET Access
Cali

[simoncorner]

Yes, that was the reason for trying IE. I have found it to work in better in some occasions

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@simoncorner wrote: 

I have a number of DL360 Gen9 and they will not boot from an iso attached to virtual CD-ROM

I have tried

UEFI/legacy boot - secure boot is disabled on UEFI

IE/Firefox/Chrome

iLO4 v2.79/v2.77/v2.61

Server 2016 iso/server 2019 iso/Intelligent Provisioning 2.86 iso/systemrescue iso

They are currently on BIOS 2.90

The aim of the exercise is to install Server 2019 on the servers. Since the server won't boot from the Server 2019 iso I thought I would try using Intelligent Provisioning (IP). The IP is quite old on the servers, 2.40.79 and only shows Server 2016 so I thought I would update the IP version.

All isos boot fine on a Gen8 server that is installed on the same network and on Virtualbox on my laptop. I do not have physical access to write the isos to a USB to insert them in the server and there are 7 servers to update which are spread out across a large geographical area.

The isos are readable as I have booted into IP on one of them, mounted the Server 2016 iso through virtual cdrom and am in the process of installing Server 2016 on it. This is proceeding, incredibly slowly.

Any thoughts?

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The IP is quite old on the servers, 2.40.79 and only shows Server 2016 so I thought I would update the IP version.